www.washingtontimes.com Topics: Charles Boustanyhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/charles-boustany/?utm_medium=RSSwww.washingtontimes.com Topics: Charles Boustanyen-usMon, 07 Nov 2016 11:49:07 -0500La. Senate race contenders make final push ahead of electionhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/7/la-senate-race-contenders-make-final-push-ahead-of/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Contenders for Louisiana's open U.S. Senate seat crisscrossed the state in the final hours ahead of Election Day, shaking hands, rallying supporters and making the last push for voter support in a race too tight to forecast.</p> <p>The state is all but certain to choose ...MELINDA DESLATTEMon, 07 Nov 2016 11:49:07 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/7/la-senate-race-contenders-make-final-push-ahead-of/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSThe Latest: Protesters seek to block Duke's exit from campushttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/2/the-latest-dozens-chant-no-duke-ahead-of-senate-de/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Latest on the U.S. Senate debate between 6 candidates, including former KKK leader David Duke (all times local):</p> <p>8:35 p.m.</p> <p>After the U.S. Senate debate on the campus of historically black Dillard University, about two dozen protesters linked arms at a traffic gate hoping to ...Wed, 02 Nov 2016 19:15:43 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/2/the-latest-dozens-chant-no-duke-ahead-of-senate-de/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSGOP candidate drops out of Senate race, supports Boustanyhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/20/gop-candidate-drops-out-of-senate-race-supports-bo/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>METAIRIE, La. (AP) - New Orleans economic development official Abhay Patel is dropping out of Louisiana's U.S. Senate race and giving his support to U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany.</p> <p>The two Republicans appeared together Thursday in the New Orleans area to make the announcement. Patel described Boustany as a "man of ...Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:48:11 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/20/gop-candidate-drops-out-of-senate-race-supports-bo/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSAnalysis: TV ad battle underway in Louisiana Senate racehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/16/analysis-tv-ad-battle-underway-in-louisiana-senate/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana's U.S. Senate race finally arrived on TV screens this month.</p> <p>An onslaught of advertising is aimed at trying to draw eyeballs to a candidate or against others in a race with two dozen people vying for the open seat and limited ways to distinguish ...MELINDA DESLATTESun, 16 Oct 2016 17:00:00 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/16/analysis-tv-ad-battle-underway-in-louisiana-senate/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSLouisiana's Republican Senate candidates don't disavow Trumphttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/10/louisianas-republican-senate-candidates-dont-disav/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Republicans in Louisiana's U.S. Senate race split Monday on whether to chastise GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump for his predatory comments about women or to continue embracing his candidacy, trying to navigate an awkward political path as they compete for votes in a state expected ...MELINDA DESLATTEMon, 10 Oct 2016 15:39:12 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/10/louisianas-republican-senate-candidates-dont-disav/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSLouisiana congressman sues over prostitution allegationshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/3/louisiana-congressman-sues-over-prostitution-alleg/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany of Louisiana filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against the author and publisher of a book that alleges the Republican congressman was involved with prostitutes who were later killed.</p> <p>The lawsuit claims author Ethan Brown and Simon & Schuster, which published Brown's ...MELINDA DESLATTEMon, 03 Oct 2016 19:00:36 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/3/louisiana-congressman-sues-over-prostitution-alleg/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSExplosive campaign to capture Louisiana's open Senate seat is underwayhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/23/louisiana-open-seat-senate-race-shaping-be-explosi/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Two days after incumbent Sen. David Vitter suffered a stunning loss in the race for governor and said he&rsquo;ll call it quits on his political career, two congressional Republicans announced their bids for Louisiana&rsquo;s Senate seat.</p> <p>Reps. Charles Boustany and John Fleming announced within hours of each other that they ...Anjali ShastryMon, 23 Nov 2015 14:45:30 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/23/louisiana-open-seat-senate-race-shaping-be-explosi/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSBoustany trounces Landry for La. congressional seat http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/9/boustany-beats-landry-house-seat-la-delegation-shr/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) &mdash; Tea party support wasn't enough to return Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry to Congress for a second term after Louisiana lost a U.S. House seat in redistricting.</p> <p>His fellow GOP congressman, Charles Boustany, easily defeated Landry in Saturday's runoff election after the two men were ...Melinda DeslatteSun, 09 Dec 2012 08:40:00 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/9/boustany-beats-landry-house-seat-la-delegation-shr/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSLitmus test for GOP, tea party? Polls open in La. race pitting Boustany vs. Landryhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/8/polls-open-louisiana-house-race-could-be-litmus-te/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>The polls are open in Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District runoff, pitting two Republicans &mdash; veteran Rep. Charles Boustany against freshman incumbent Rep. Jeff Landry &mdash; in the first post-November 2012 test of the tea party's influence on the GOP.</p> <p>The two Republicans, forced to run against each after Lousiana lost ...David EldridgeSat, 08 Dec 2012 12:26:46 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/8/polls-open-louisiana-house-race-could-be-litmus-te/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS